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Meta has had a culture of open source, even before their reputation got bad (React, RocksDB, Thrift, folly, etc). They open source a lot of their AI models (ins
by ipsum2 3y ago
Meta has had a culture of open source, even before their reputation got bad (React, RocksDB, Thrift, folly, etc). They open source a lot of their AI models (instead of just source) because they don't have an enterprise cloud to sell these things, unlike Amazon/Google/Microsoft's offerings (which all offer speech transcription and text to speech as services).
- fomine3 3y agoThis is an underrated point for Meta. They are good at opensourcing.
- kaycey2022 3y agoI understand that. I’m asking in the context that a number of business commentators have come out and said that Google open sourcing the transformer technology was in itself a big mistake, in hindsight. I think the business side in Meta would have taken a similar view.